OOPS!!!!

Yesterday I got a call from Mary. She was very quiet and very timid in her telling. We had been told that a good insect repellent could be made by mixing a little dish detergent with some water and spraying it on the plants. So Mary mixed up some "insect repellent" and sprayed the plants Wednesday evening. On Thursday when she visited the garden, apparently this home made insect repellent had burned the plants. To hear Mary tell the tale, the plants were all dying and gasping their last breaths and saying things like "Tell Mama I love her" and going into the light. Well, I did visit the garden last evening and it wasn't as bad as I had prepared myself for. Some leaves are burned and we might lose a plant or two. It looks like we did lose one row of corn, but all in all, I think the most of the plants will survive. It's a good thing that Mary was the one to try this experiment because she does things with a much lighter hand that I do. If I had been the one with the dish soap spray, I don't think any of the plants would survive.

This morning I revisited the garden because I wanted to go for a walk around the pond. The plants are coming along. There are still a couple that may not make it, but we can always replace them. I did notice that one of our tomatoes is starting to color and that the zucchini is getting bigger. I hope we know a lot of people that really like yellow squash. We have 7 squash. plants and there are about 6 to 8 little to medium yellow squash on just about each one of them and more coming. So send us your recipes for yellow squash!!!! I did put some stakes around the eggplants. Mary had erected some lattices for the cucumbers because she said that they looked like they wanted to climb.

This afternoon I going to see if I can find places where we can buy Sevin in larger quantities for a reasonable price. Mary and I each bought a 5lb bag and it is quickly being used up. I dusted today because I saw a beetle on one of the tomato plants and another one on one of the eggplants. I don't know if we are going overboard or not. It's just that Mary and I want to be the ones to eat our crop not some beetle.

Tomorrow, I plan on posting some pictures of the riping tomato and the growing zucchini.